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For the first twenty years of their marriage, Yitzchak and Rivka were childless. They prayed to Hashem. Hashem heard their prayers and they were blessed with twin sons. Esav, the elder, was a man of the field, a hunter; Yaakov, the younger, was a scholar who sat and studied Torah. Each parent had a favorite son.

For the first twenty years of their marriage, Yitzchak and Rivka were childless. They prayed to Hashem. Hashem heard their prayers and they were blessed with twin sons. Esav, the elder, was a man of the field, a hunter; Yaakov, the younger, was a scholar who sat and studied Torah. Each parent had a favorite son. Yitzchak showered his affections upon Esav, while Rivka preferred Yaakov.

Esav came home one day from the field and was very tired. He noticed that Yaakov was cooking some red lentils. Our Sages explain that Yaakov was cooking lentils for his father, Yitzchak, because it was the day of Avrohom's funeral. Said Esav to Yaakov, "Give me quickly some of that red stuff to eat for I am very tired."

Yaakov answered, "Sell me, in turn, your privileges as first-born." Yaakov knew that until Hashem chose Aharon and his descendants to serve as the priestly family, it was the first-born who would serve as priests to Hashem. Esav was not worthy of this sanctified work. "Of what use are the rights of the first-born to me?" reasoned Esav. "Swear to me," said the wary Yaakov. And so it was. Yaakov gave Esav some bread and lentils in return for the rights of the first-born for which he had shown very little regard.

Yitzchak had grown old and blind and felt that the time had come to bless his eldest son. He, therefore, requested that Esav go to the field to hunt and prepare the game he captured as a tasty dish, so that Yitzchak could partake of it and then bless him. Rivka, overhearing the conversation, dressed Yaakov in Esav's clothing, covered his hands and neck with goat-skin to make them feel as hairy as Esav's, and sent him to Yitzchak bearing a tasty dish of young goat's meat and bread which she made. Yaakov's voice aroused Yitzchak's suspicions, but they were allayed when he felt Yaakov's hairy hands which Yitzchak was sure belonged to Esav.

Yitzchak, now ready to bestow upon his son the blessings, called him forward. Yaakov came forward and kissed his father. Yitzchak blessed Yaakov saying, "May Hashem give you from the dew of the sky and the fat of the land, and plenty of grain and wine. Nations shall serve you and kingdoms shall bow down to you. Those who curse you shall be cursed and those who bless you shall be blessed."

No sooner had Yaakov left, did Esav return and the truth was discovered. However, Yitzchak did not revoke his blessing to Yaakov. Instead, he agreed to bless Esav as well and foretold that Esav's future descendants would live by the sword and would serve Yaakov's descendants so long as the latter behaved properly. However, when the descendants of Yaakov stray from the path of the Torah, Esav's descendants will be free of this servitude.

Esav was quite upset at Yaakov's ruse and plotted to kill his brother as soon as their father died. To prevent this, Rivka instructed Yaakov to leave home and stay with her brother, Lovan, in Charan. Yitzchak gave him similar counsel and ex- pressed the wish that Yaakov choose a wife from among his uncle's family. Yitzchak then blessed Yaakov again that the blessings of Avrohom be fulfilled through him and his descendants, to inherit the land of Canaan. After Yaakov had left Be'er Sheva, Esav tried to please his parents by marrying a daughter of Yishmael.

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Jacob and Esau

These are the chronicles of Isaac son of Abraham: Abraham was Isaac's father. When Isaac was 40 years old, he married Rebecca, daughter of Bethuel the Aramaean of Padan Aram and sister of Laban the Aramaean.

His wife was sterile, and Isaac pleaded with God for her sake. God granted his plea, and Rebecca became pregnant. But the children clashed inside her, and when this occurred, she asked, "Why is this happening to me?" She went to seek a message from God.

God's word to her was, "Two nations are in your womb. Two governments will separate from inside you. The upper hand will go from one government to the other. The greater one will serve the younger." When the time came for her to give birth, there were twins in her womb. The first one came out reddish, as hairy as a fur coat. They named him Esau. His brother then'emerged, and his hand was grasping Esau's heel. [Isaac] named him Jacob. Isaac was 60 years old when [Rebecca] gave birth to them.

The boys grew up. Esau became a skilled trapper, a man of the field. Jacob was a scholarly man who remained with the tents. Isaac enjoyed eating Esau's game and favored him, but Rebecca favored Jacob. Jacob was once simmering a stew, when Esau came home exhausted from the field. Esau said to Jacob, "Give me a swallow of that red stuff! I'm famished!" (He was therefore given the name Edom).

"First sell me your birthright,” replied Jacob. "Here I'm about to die!" exclaimed Esau. "What good is a birthright to me?" "Make an oath to me right now," said Jacob. He made the oath, and sold his birthright to Jacob. Jacob then gave Esau bread and lentil stew. [Esau] ate it, drank, got up and left. He thus rejected the birthright.

Isaac and the Philistines

There was a famine in the land, aside from the first famine in the time of Abraham. Isaac went to Abimeleckh king of the Philistines in Gerar. God appeared to [Isaac] and said, "Do not go down to Egypt. Remain undisturbed in the land that I shall designate to you. Remain an immigrant in this land. I will be with you and bless you, since it will be to you and your offspring that I will give all these lands. I will thus keep the oath that I made to your father Abraham. I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars of the sky, and grant them all these lands. All the nations on earth shall be blessed through your descendants. All this is because Abraham obeyed My voice, and kept My charge, My commandments, My decrees, and My laws."

Isaac thus settled in Gerar. When the local men asked about his wife, he told them that she was his sister. He was afraid to say that she was his wife. Rebecca was so good-looking that the local men could have killed him because of her.

Once, after [Isaac] had been there for some time, Abimelekh, king of the Philistines, was looking out the window, and he saw Isaac enjoying himself with his wife Rebecca. Abimelekh summoned Isaac. "But she is your wife!" he said. "How could you have said that she is your sister?" "I was afraid that I would die because of her," replied Isaac.

"What have you done to us?" demanded Abimelekh. "One of the people could easily have slept with your wife! You would have made us commit a terrible crime!"

Abimelekh issued an order to all the people: "Whoever touches this man or his wife shall die."

Isaac farmed in the area. That year, he reaped a hundred times [as much as he sowed), for God had blessed him.

This was the beginning of his prosperity. He then continued to prosper until he became extremely wealthy. He had flocks of sheep, herds of cattle, and a large retinue of slaves. The Philistines became jealous of him. They plugged up all the wells that his father's servants had dug while Abraham was still alive, and they filled them with earth.

Abimelekh said to Isaac, "Go away from us. You have become much more powerful than we are."

Isaac left the area and camped in the Gerar Valley, intending to settle there. " He redug the wells that had been dug in the days of his father Abraham, which had been plugged up by the Philistines after Abraham's death. He gave them the same names that his father had given them. Isaac's servants then dug in the valley, and found a new well, brimming over with fresh water. The shepherds of Gerar disputed with Isaac's shepherds, claiming that the water was theirs. [Isaac] named the well Challenge (Esek), because they had challenged him.

They dug another well, and it was also disputed. [Isaac] named it Accusation (Sitnah).

He then moved away from there and dug another well. This time it was not disputed, so he named it Wide Spaces (Rechovoth). "Now God will grant us wide open spaces," he said. "We can be fruitful in the land."

From there, [Isaac] went up to Beer-sheba. God appeared to him that night and said, "I am God of your father Abraham. Do not be afraid, for I am with you. I will bless you and grant you very many descendants because of My servant Abraham."

[Isaac] built an altar there and called in God's name. He set up his tents there, and his servants dug a well in the area. Abimelekh came to [Isaac] from Gerar, along with a group of friends and his general Pikhol. "Why have you come to me?" asked Isaac. "You hate me; you drove me away from you!"

"We have indeed seen that God is with you," they replied. "We propose that there now be a dread oath between you and us. Let us make a treaty with you, that just as we did not touch you, you will do no harm to us. We did only good to you and let you leave in peace. Now you are the one who is blessed by God."

[Isaac] prepared a feast for them, and they ate and drank. They got up early in the morning, and made a mutual oath. Isaac then bid them farewell, and they left in peace.

On that very day, Isaac's servants came and told him about the well they had been digging. "We have found water!" they announced. [Isaac] named the well Shibah. The city is therefore called Beer-sheba to this very day.

Esau Marries

When Esau was forty years old, he married Judith daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemathl daughter of Elon the Hittite. [His wives] became a source of spiritual bitterness to Isaac and Rebecca.

The Blessing

Isaac had grown old and his eyesight was fading. He summoned his elder son Esau. “My son.”“Yes.” "I am old and I have no idea when I will die. Now take your equipment, your dangler and bow, and go out in the field to trap me some game.

Make it into a tasty dish, the way I like it, and bring it to me to eat. My soul will then bless you before I die."

Rebecca had been listening while Isaac was speaking to Esau, his son. Esau went out to the field to trap some game and bring it home. Rebecca said to her son Jacob, "I just heard your father speaking to your brother Esau. He said, ‘Bring me some game and prepare it into something tasty. I will eat it and bless you in God's presence before I die.’ Now, my son, listen to me. Heed my instructions carefully. Go to the sheep and take two choice young kids. I will prepare them with a tasty recipe, just the way your father likes them. You must then bring it to your father, so that he will eat it and bless you before he dies." "But my brother Esau is hairy," replied Jacob. "I am smooth - skinned. Suppose my father touches me. He will realize that I am an imposter! I will gain a curse rather than a blessing!" "Let any curse be on me, my son," said the mother. "But listen to me. Go, bring me what I asked.” [Jacob] went and fetched what his mother had requested. She took [the kids] and prepared them, using the tasty recipe that [Jacob's] father liked best. Rebecca then took her older son Esau's best clothing, which she had in her keeping, and put them on her younger son Jacob. She [also] placed the young goats' skins on his arms and on the hairless parts of his neck. Rebecca handed to her son Jacob the delicacy, and the bread she had baked. He came to his father. "Father." "Yes. Who are you, my son?" "It is I, Esau, your first-born," said Jacob. "I have done as you asked. Sit up, and eat the game I trapped, so that your soul will bless me." "How did you find it so quickly, my son?" asked Isaac."God your Lord was with me.""Come closer to me," said Isaac to Jacob. "Let me touch you, my son. are you really Esau or not?" Jacob came closer to his father Isaac, and [Isaac] touched him. He said, “The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau.” He did not realize who it was because there was hair on [Jacob's] arms, just like those if his brother Esau. [Isaac] was about to bless him. "But are you really my son Esau?""I am." "Then serve me [the food]. I will eat the game that my son trapped, so hat my soul may bless you." [Jacob] served it, and [Isaac] ate. He then brought [Isaac] some wine, and he drank it. His father Isaac said to him, "Come closer and kiss me, my son." [Jacob] approached and kissed him. [Isaac] smelled the fragrance of his garments, and blessed him.He said, "See, my son's fragrance is like the perfume of a field blessed by God.

"May God grant you the dew of heaven and the fat of the earth, much grain and wine. Nations will serve you; governments will bow down to you. You shall be like a lord over your brother; your mother's children will prostrate themselves to you. Those who curse you are cursed, and those who bless you are blessed.”

Isaac had finished blessing Jacob, and Jacob had just left his father Isaac, when his brother Esau came back from his hunt. " He had also prepared a delicacy and brought it to his father. "Let my father get up and eat his son's venison," he said, "so that your soul may bless me." "Who are you?" asked his father Isaac.

"I am your first-born, Esau," he replied.

Isaac was seized with a violent fit of trembling. "Who ... where ... is he one who trapped game and just served it to me? I ate it all before you came and I blessed him. The blessing will remain his."

When Esau heard his father's words, he let out a most loud and bitter cream. "Bless me too, Father," he pleaded. "Your brother came with deceit, and he already took your blessing."

"Isn't he truly named Jacob (Ya’akov)! He went behind my back (akav) twice. First he took- my birthright, and now he took my blessing!"

[Esau] pleaded, "Couldn't you have saved me a blessing too?"

Isaac tried to answer. "But I made him like a lord over you," he said. "I have given him all his brothers as slaves. I have associated him with the grain and the wine. Where ... what ... can I do for you, my son?"

Esau said to his father, "Is there only one blessing that you have, my father? Father! Bless me too!" Esau raised his voice and began to weep. His father Isaac then replied and said, “The fat places of the earth can still be your dwelling, and [you can still have] the dew of heaven. But you shall live by your sword. You may have to serve your brother, but when your complaints mount up, you will throw his yoke off your neck." Esau was furious at Jacob because of the blessing that his father had given him. He said to himself, "The days of mourning for my father will be re soon. I will then be able to kill my brother Jacob."

Her older son's plans were reported to Rebecca. She sent word and summoned her younger son Jacob. "Your brother Esau is consoling himself planning to kill you," she said. "Now, my son, listen to me. Set out and e to my brother Laban in Charan. Remain with him awhile until your brother's anger has subsided. When your brother has calmed down from his rage against you, and has forgotten what you have done to him, I will send word and summon you home. But why should I lose you both on the same day?"

Rebecca said to Isaac, "I am disgusted with life because of those Hittite, women. If Jacob marries such a Hittite girl, from the daughters of this land, why should I go on living?"

Isaac summoned Jacob and gave him a blessing and a charge. “Do not marry a Canaanite girl, “ he said. "Set out and go to Padan Aram, to the house of your maternal grandfather Bethuel. Marry a daughter of your uncle Laban. God Almighty will then bless you, make you fruitful, and increase your numbers. You will become an assembly of nations. He will grant Abraham's blessing to you and your descendants, so that you will take over land which God gave to Abraham, where you previously lived only as a foreigner."

Isaac then sent Jacob on his way. [Jacob] headed toward Padan Aram, to Laban son of Bethuel the Aramaean, the brother of Rebecca, Jacob and Esau's mother.

Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him to Padan Aram to find a wife, including in his blessing the charge, "Do not marry a Canaanite girl." [He also knew that] Jacob had obeyed his father and mother, and had gone to Padan Aram. Esau understood that the Canaanite girls were displeasing to his father Isaac. Esau therefore went to Ishmael and married Machlath daughter of Abraham's son Ishmael, a sister of Nebayoth, in addition to his other wives.

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